Recommended Reading Creating a Lean Culture: Tools to Sustain Lean Conversions Buy Book David Mann, CRC Press, 2005 Lean management is a crucial ingredient for successful Lean conversions. Yet, the standards books on Lean either don’t cover it or only hint at implementing new ways to manage in a Lean environment. Creating a Lean Culture provides the rationale and then a practical guide to implementing the missing link you’ll need to sustain your Lean implementation—a Lean management system.